Mama, None of Us Is Perfect: 10 Ways to Free Yourself from Guilt
You may recall from the last post that the purpose of building well-being is not to perfect your parenting or become some idyllic Zen mama who’s always calm, cool, and…
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Why Well-being for Mamas? Being & Modeling Your Best Self
I want to elaborate on why it’s important for moms to focus on well-being. To start, let me say that it’s NOT because…. You don’t already have what it takes…
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Mama Well-being: What It Is & 4 Skills to Build It
As I mentioned in last week’s post, I believe mamas have a lot of influence when it comes to raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults. I don’t say this to pressure…
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Introducing the Mama Well-being Series
In the coming months, I’ll discuss a topic I’ve noodled over for quite some time: Mama Well-being. As a mother of two little people, I’ve come to realize that mom…
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Is Summer Over Yet? Using Mindfulness to Deal with the Heat
Today feels particularly hot! It seems like an appropriate time to heed my own advice from a column I wrote for the New York Times: “How to Be Mindful When It’s…
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Easing Stress & Pain through Whole Body Awareness
The stories we tell ourselves about our bodies, minds, and capacities can be astonishingly limiting, yet oh-so convincing! I recently became aware of a story I’d been telling myself about pregnancy…….
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Befriending Uncertainty: Knowing When It’s Too Soon to Tell
I was recently reminded of a topic I wrote about in an earlier blog: The value of saying, “I don’t know.” I went on retreat with a lot of unanswered…
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Mindfulness, Motherhood, & Anxiety
Early this morning in the quiet of dawn, our neighbor blasted his car bass. With each boom, I could feel our house shake – and my anxiety ratchet. My mind…
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The Gift of Happiness
I’ve been thinking about personal happiness as it relates to the state of the world…. Is it self-indulgent to focus on being happy? What about all the suffering, isn’t it more…
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Letting Go of Physical & Mental Clutter
The main message in our culture is that we’re better off with more – more activities on the calendar, more money and material goods, more plans laid out for the…
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